Easy Crockpot Recipes

Easy crockpot recipes are lifesavers on busy days! The simple meal prep can be done in the morning or early afternoon, and then a home-cooked, delicious meal awaits at the end of the day. These easy crockpot recipes are tried and true favorites your family will love!

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1. Crockpot Meals with Beef
2. Crockpot Meals with Pork
3. Crockpot Meals with Chicken
4. How to Make Easy Crockpot Italian Beef
5. Easy Crockpot Recipes – Italian Beef Recipe

Crockpot Meals with Beef

The beef cooks up beautifully in the crockpot! The rule is low and slow. The longer you let it cook, the more tender it becomes. Don’t miss our Crockpot Italian Beef recipe at the end of this post.

Crockpot Roast Beef and Vegetables

Crockpot Roast Beef and Vegetables is one of those meals that instantly transports me back to my childhood. Even before the days of slow cookers, my grandmother and mother would roast vegetables with a pot roast in the oven. I loved coming in from church on a Sunday to the smell of fragrant meat, carrots, potatoes, or sweet potatoes. Of course, you can still use the oven for this recipe, but it requires the oven to be on for hours and heat up the house. Plus it’s so easy to just toss all the ingredients into the Crockpot and let it slowly cook all day. Dinner is ready with minimal effort and it’s always a crowd-pleaser!

Crockpot Beef Stew

Crockpot Beef Stew, which we also call Irish Beef Stew, is one of our favorite meals to make on a chilly evening. The simmering stew meat cooks low and slow in the Crockpot, the savory smell permeating the house. It’s such a delightful fragrance to come home to! Our Irish relatives make this each year for St. Patrick’s Day. This recipe is similar to a traditional Irish stew; the only difference is we don’t add beer to the broth. No matter the occasion or season, this stew is warm, comforting, and filling.

Crockpot Vegetable Beef Soup

Crockpot Beef Vegetable Soup takes me right back to the cozy days of my childhood when the savory smell would greet us coming home from school. It’s the kind of meal that our mom would throw together in the morning on busy days in the slow cooker and then let simmer all day. She would always serve it with delicious homemade crusty bread or our favorite hot cheese bread for a simple, healthy, and hearty supper. It’s so easy to make, you’ll never reach for canned soup again!

Crockpot Steak and Gravy

I was introduced to these 3 ingredient in Crockpot Steak and Gravy by a good friend of mine, Rashona, many years ago. It was a busy time in my life and she suggested this recipe to use for those crazy days when you just don’t have time to make dinner later in the day. I have made it countless times over the years and it always turns out rich, tender, and absolutely delicious. It is one of my favorite slow-cooker beef recipes to this day. My family gobbles it up; it’s one of their most requested dinners!

Crockpot Mexican Shredded Beef

This is our go-to shredded beef recipe, I simply love it! It really doesn’t get any easier than throwing a roast in a Crockpot with a handful of ingredients and letting it cook all day. It literally takes 5 minutes of prep time. Growing up, we called this “Mom’s Lake Powell Beef” because she would always make it a few days before we went camping at Lake Powell. She would freeze it and then heat it up over a camp stove. I can’t begin to tell you how good this tasted after a long day of playing on the lake. We served it up in some tortillas for an easy meal. It was delicious!

Crockpot Lasagna

Cheesy and perfectly seasoned this Crockpot Lasagna recipe is not only delicious, it is definitely the easiest way to make lasagna. You don’t have to boil the lasagna noodles ahead of time and deal with wet, sticky noodles. They cook in the sauce and come out perfectly every time — not crunchy and not too soft.

Copycat Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup

This Pasta e Fagioli Soup is one of our family’s most favorite cold-weather meals. It reminds me of fall leaves, football season, sweaters, and cozy fires. It’s my top choice at Olive Garden every time we go there to eat, so I decided to find a way to make it at home. This copycat recipe tastes exactly like the popular restaurant dish!

Crockpot Meals with Pork

These slow-cooker recipes include recipes made with ham, sausage, pork chops, pork roast, and pork ribs. With the versatility of pork, there are so many options! Our slow-cooker pork chops have become one of our most popular recipes.

Easy Crockpot Pork Chops

This is an AWESOME recipe that came from my great grandpa, which was passed down to my mom, which she passed down to us. It makes an amazing gravy and the pork is perfectly fork-tender every time. This slow cooker dish takes less than 5 minutes of actual prep time, but it tastes like you spent hours in the kitchen. This recipe is perfect for Sunday dinner, or a busy weeknight.

Crockpot Ham

Christmas and Easter dinners wouldn’t be complete without a succulent ham. Dripping with maple and brown sugar glaze, this ham is slow-cooked in the Crockpot and always turns out perfect! Sometimes if I can get a ham on a good sale, I will make a ham for Sunday dinner and then we can make lots of different meals throughout the week with the leftovers (more on that below, we have lots of great leftover ideas). This holiday ham seriously can’t be beaten. The flavor is so sweet and savory, you will never want to use the included flavor packet again!

Crockpot Breakfast Casserole

This crockpot breakfast casserole is my go-to when I have company staying at my home. I don’t want my guests to miss out on the most important meal of the day! The eggs cook up light and fluffy all around the ingredients, so it’s basically a giant omelet once it’s all baked. This breakfast casserole is so easy to whip up the night before and then let the Crockpot do the work while we all sleep. Then guests are greeted with fragrant breakfast smells first thing in the morning and you get all the credit for serving a delicious breakfast.

Crockpot Split Pea Soup

Crockpot Split Pea Soup is rich, warm, nourishing, and incredibly flavorful. It is the perfect soup to warm you up from the inside out on a chilly day. What I love most about making split pea soup in a Crockpot is that you can just dump all the ingredients in and forget about it.

Crockpot Pork Roast

This Crockpot Pork Roast and Vegetables is a fix-it-and-forget-it meal that always turns out great. You can rely on tender, juicy pork roast, and the vegetables are cooked to perfection. I love my crockpot! It is so handy on busy days. You can relax for the rest of the day because dinner is done. What a great feeling! Plus, there is nothing quite as comforting as your family walking into a home filled with the aroma of a home-cooked meal.

Crockpot Kalua Pork with Cabbage

This Kalua pork recipe tastes so much like the actual, authentic Hawaiian Kalua pork but can be done with MUCH less effort. You literally throw it in the slow cooker and let it do its thing all day. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the true “imu” method, but I can’t pass up the ease of the Crockpot when I am just making Hawaiian pulled pork for my family. If you want to smoke it in an underground pit to get the “true” experience I won’t stop you! But with this recipe, you’ll get the same fork-tender pork and the great taste with a fraction of the effort. 

Sweet and Spicy Crockpot Ribs

When summer is winding down and football season is just beginning, it’s time to bring out the party food. I don’t know about you, but I love pork ribs, especially when they are saucy and fall off the bone from the Crockpot. The messier, the better. These Crockpot Ribs are just that. They are so good and so easy to prepare too! We like to serve these with potatoes and fresh corn, and maybe a salad.

Cuban Style Crockpot Pork Chops

Cuban Style Crockpot Pork Chops are your answer to “What’s for dinner”? If you’re scraping the bottom of the recipe barrel, try these tangy, tender chops in the slow cooker and serve with rice pilaf, noodles, or mashed potatoes. We found a similar recipe on the Food Network years ago and adjusted it for the Crockpot. I love putting ingredients in the slow cooker right after lunch, then I don’t have to think about it again until dinner time. The aroma welcomes us all home and we can’t wait to gather around the table for a nourishing, hearty meal together.

Crockpot Pizza Bake

This Crockpot Pizza Bake has all of the favorite flavors of pizza in a hearty pasta dish. I love the convenience of being able to make it ahead of time. It doesn’t cook that long in the Crockpot, just two or three hours. Toss all the ingredients in the crockpot just before picking the kids up from school. This frees up that hectic dinner time rushes to spend on homework or running errands, or maybe even relaxing for a little while with a good book – wouldn’t that be nice!

Zuppa Toscana Soup

Zuppa Toscana is one of our favorite soups at Olive Garden, and this copycat recipe is spot on. It is perfect for the cold days of fall and winter, but really it is great any time of the year. The soup is creamy and hearty with a bit of a kick. If you like some heat in your soup, be generous with the red pepper flakes. For a more mild flavor, a little goes a long way. If you like Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana soup, you are going to love this (I think it tastes better than Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana recipe — it is more creamy and flavorful). This goes PERFECTLY with our Copycat Pizza Factory’s Breadtwists recipe.

Crockpot Meals with Chicken

Chicken… it’s what’s for dinner! And when it’s made in the crockpot, you better believe it will be tender, juicy, and flavorful. Chicken is the least expensive meat to prepare in the crockpot and it turns out great every time.

Crockpot Chicken Tacos

These Crockpot Chicken Tacos are so incredibly easy to make. Just throw everything in the crockpot and come back in a few hours to a delicious meal. You can also use this recipe to make shredded chicken for taco salad, nachos, enchiladas, and burrito bowls. They are deliciously served with corn, black beans, and Mexican rice.

Crockpot BBQ Hot Wings with Blue Cheese Dip

Our hot wings have way more flavor than your typical wings that are already flavored or seasoned at the grocery store. You can decide just how hot you really want to go. And the blue cheese dip is out of this world good!

Easy Crockpot Chicken Gyros

These Crockpot Chicken Gyros are the easiest chicken gyros you will ever make, hands down. Prep time is hardly anything and the Crockpot does most of the work. I love the sauce that goes on these, too. It is simple to make and complements the seasoned chicken perfectly.

Crockpot Chicken and Rice Soup

This Slow Cooker Chicken and Rice soup is so easy, you’ll find yourself reaching for this recipe time and again. The ease of preparing this Chicken and Rice Soup is only outweighed by how good it tastes. Simple seasonings slowly simmer with the chicken, vegetables, and broth making every bite hearty and scrumptious. This is a favorite go-to dinner during busy fall and winter days. It’s truly a fix-it-and-forget-it meal that everyone in the family loves. I serve it with some homemade rolls, breadsticks, or my kid’s favorite, cornbread.

Crockpot White Chicken Chili

There’s nothing better than gathering around a warm pot of soup with friends and family on a crisp evening. With temperatures dipping (at least in some parts of the country), we all have comfort food on the brain, and this Crockpot White Chicken Chili Recipe is one of our very favorites to make when there’s a chill in the air. And since it simmers in the slower cooker all day, your house will smell divine!

Crockpot Cashew Chicken

In addition to being delicious, this Crockpot Cashew Chicken is super easy to make! You can have this ready and in the crock pot faster than you can get your kids in the car and drive to the nearest Chinese place for take-out. My family absolutely LOVED this recipe! We served it with some steamed veggies and it was the perfect pairing. You can throw veggies in the crockpot with this dish or you can serve it on the side — whatever is easiest for you!

Crockpot General Tso’s Chicken

I love this version of General Tso’s chicken. More times than not, General Tso’s chicken is what I will order at Chinese restaurants. It has a little more of a kick than sweet and sour chicken and I like the flavor better. I came up with this crock-pot version the other day when I didn’t have a lot of time later in the day to prepare dinner and fell in love with the ease and the flavor!

Crockpot Salsa Verde Chicken

This Crockpot Salsa Verde Chicken is so easy.. really, it is almost TOO easy. I have hesitated even putting it on here because it is so easy. Lucky for you, I changed my mind because it is so flavorful. And easy. Did I mention that already? I love making it on those days I really just don’t feel like making dinner. Most of the time we will serve this over just plain, cooked white rice and garnish with cilantro.

Crockpot Zesty Italian Dressing Chicken

This pasta dish is one of those great recipes you can make up in a flash. While it cooks the flavors all come together and make the chicken taste amazing! When it is ready the boneless skinless chicken breasts easily shred up. The zesty, creamy sauce, made with cream of chicken soup and cream cheese, can be served over noodles, rice, or even cauliflower rice. We like to serve it with steamed broccoli. You can’t beat a slow-cooked meal that is easy, delicious, and family-friendly!

How to Make Easy Crockpot Italian Beef